I have a Rails app that is currently running in production on Rails v1.2.2. Since I didn''t have control of the server that runs the production copy of this app, I have put off upgrading to v2.x. However, I recently read about freezing Rails to your app, making it independent of the version of Rails installed on the server so I upgraded my app to v2.3.4. On my development machine everything worked great after freezing Rails to my upgraded app, (presumably because I have Rails v2.3.4 installed locally). As a test of the freezing process, I copied my frozen app to an old PC that only has Rails v2.0.2 installed and tried starting up a Mongrel server . This is unsuccessful, and causes the following error... E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygem.rb:246: in ''activate'': can''t activate actionpack (= 2.0.2), already activated actionpack-2.3.4] (Gem::Exception) If I go to the gems directory on this box and rename the actionpack-2.0.2 directory (such as adding a -) and try starting mongrel again I get a similar error message... E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygem.rb:246: in ''activate'': can''t activate rails (= 2.0.2), already activated rails-2.3.4] (Gem::Exception) I checked my controllers for includes that might be causing this, but nothing seemed suspicious (only includes were for ''date'', ''net/http'', and ''uri'') Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Freezing seemed so straightforward, don''t know why it''s causing me so many problems. Thanks for any nuggets of insight / wisdom that come my way...
If you post the rest of the backtrace, it will be much more helpful. The activation is coming from *somewhere*, so the trace will show that. --Matt Jones On Nov 4, 1:20 pm, Bob <rpell...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I have a Rails app that is currently running in production on Rails > v1.2.2. Since I didn''t have control of the server that runs the > production copy of this app, I have put off upgrading to v2.x. > However, I recently read about freezing Rails to your app, making it > independent of the version of Rails installed on the server so I > upgraded my app to v2.3.4. On my development machine everything > worked great after freezing Rails to my upgraded app, (presumably > because I have Rails v2.3.4 installed locally). As a test of the > freezing process, I copied my frozen app to an old PC that only has > Rails v2.0.2 installed and tried starting up a Mongrel server . This > is unsuccessful, and causes the following error... > > E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygem.rb:246: in ''activate'': can''t > activate actionpack (= 2.0.2), already activated actionpack-2.3.4] > (Gem::Exception) > > If I go to the gems directory on this box and rename the > actionpack-2.0.2 directory (such as adding a -) and try starting > mongrel again I get a similar error message... > > E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygem.rb:246: in ''activate'': can''t > activate rails (= 2.0.2), already activated rails-2.3.4] > (Gem::Exception) > > I checked my controllers for includes that might be causing this, but > nothing seemed suspicious (only includes were for ''date'', ''net/http'', > and ''uri'') Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Freezing > seemed so straightforward, don''t know why it''s causing me so many > problems. > > Thanks for any nuggets of insight / wisdom that come my way...
Thanks for the reply Matt, Unfortunately, I cannot post more of the backtrace because I am unable to reproduce the same error now that I have made progress on this problem. I did the following on the machine with Rails 2.0.2 on it and all works well there now. -updated rubygems from 0.9.4 to 1.3.5 and updated all gems that rubygems-update-1.3.5 depends on (builder, session, hoe-seattlerb, minitest, hoe) -installed rack gem 1.0.1 My next hurdle is to attempt freezing all of these gems and forcing rubygems-update to be loaded on my production app. I was thinking of doing this by adding a ''require'' into dispatch.fcgi but I''m not sure if this is wise or if it''ll even work at all. Of course I welcome any advice anyone has... On Nov 5, 11:54 am, Matt Jones <al2o...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> If you post the rest of the backtrace, it will be much more helpful. > The activation is coming from *somewhere*, so the trace will show > that. > > --Matt Jones > > On Nov 4, 1:20 pm, Bob <rpell...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > I have a Rails app that is currently running in production on Rails > > v1.2.2. Since I didn''t have control of the server that runs the > > production copy of this app, I have put off upgrading to v2.x. > > However, I recently read about freezing Rails to your app, making it > > independent of the version of Rails installed on the server so I > > upgraded my app to v2.3.4. On my development machine everything > > worked great after freezing Rails to my upgraded app, (presumably > > because I have Rails v2.3.4 installed locally). As a test of the > > freezing process, I copied my frozen app to an old PC that only has > > Rails v2.0.2 installed and tried starting up a Mongrel server . This > > is unsuccessful, and causes the following error... > > > E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygem.rb:246: in ''activate'': can''t > > activate actionpack (= 2.0.2), already activated actionpack-2.3.4] > > (Gem::Exception) > > > If I go to the gems directory on this box and rename the > > actionpack-2.0.2 directory (such as adding a -) and try starting > > mongrel again I get a similar error message... > > > E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygem.rb:246: in ''activate'': can''t > > activate rails (= 2.0.2), already activated rails-2.3.4] > > (Gem::Exception) > > > I checked my controllers for includes that might be causing this, but > > nothing seemed suspicious (only includes were for ''date'', ''net/http'', > > and ''uri'') Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Freezing > > seemed so straightforward, don''t know why it''s causing me so many > > problems. > > > Thanks for any nuggets of insight / wisdom that come my way...
If you don''t control the server and the Rubygems version is old, you''re pretty much out of luck. The only way around it is to compile a new Ruby and Rubygems from source and tell your app to use that. You''ll probably want to check with whoever *does* control the server about the availability of the compiler toolchain before trying that (on Site5, they needed to add you to a special "compiler" group, for instance). --Matt Jones On Nov 6, 10:43 am, Bob <rpell...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Thanks for the reply Matt, > > Unfortunately, I cannot post more of the backtrace because I am unable > to reproduce the same error now that I have made progress on this > problem. I did the following on the machine with Rails 2.0.2 on it > and all works well there now. > > -updated rubygems from 0.9.4 to 1.3.5 and updated all gems that > rubygems-update-1.3.5 depends on (builder, session, hoe-seattlerb, > minitest, hoe) > -installed rack gem 1.0.1 > > My next hurdle is to attempt freezing all of these gems and forcing > rubygems-update to be loaded on my production app. I was thinking of > doing this by adding a ''require'' into dispatch.fcgi but I''m not sure > if this is wise or if it''ll even work at all. > > Of course I welcome any advice anyone has... > > On Nov 5, 11:54 am, Matt Jones <al2o...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > > > If you post the rest of the backtrace, it will be much more helpful. > > The activation is coming from *somewhere*, so the trace will show > > that. > > > --Matt Jones > > > On Nov 4, 1:20 pm, Bob <rpell...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > > I have a Rails app that is currently running in production on Rails > > > v1.2.2. Since I didn''t have control of the server that runs the > > > production copy of this app, I have put off upgrading to v2.x. > > > However, I recently read about freezing Rails to your app, making it > > > independent of the version of Rails installed on the server so I > > > upgraded my app to v2.3.4. On my development machine everything > > > worked great after freezing Rails to my upgraded app, (presumably > > > because I have Rails v2.3.4 installed locally). As a test of the > > > freezing process, I copied my frozen app to an old PC that only has > > > Rails v2.0.2 installed and tried starting up a Mongrel server . This > > > is unsuccessful, and causes the following error... > > > > E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygem.rb:246: in ''activate'': can''t > > > activate actionpack (= 2.0.2), already activated actionpack-2.3.4] > > > (Gem::Exception) > > > > If I go to the gems directory on this box and rename the > > > actionpack-2.0.2 directory (such as adding a -) and try starting > > > mongrel again I get a similar error message... > > > > E:/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygem.rb:246: in ''activate'': can''t > > > activate rails (= 2.0.2), already activated rails-2.3.4] > > > (Gem::Exception) > > > > I checked my controllers for includes that might be causing this, but > > > nothing seemed suspicious (only includes were for ''date'', ''net/http'', > > > and ''uri'') Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Freezing > > > seemed so straightforward, don''t know why it''s causing me so many > > > problems. > > > > Thanks for any nuggets of insight / wisdom that come my way...